How to Claim Your Free Dottech Domain: For Noonies Winners with Love

The third ever annual Noonies have concluded! For 3 months, netizens have cast over 105k votes for 4,961 nominees across 586 awards from 6 different categories!

Now that all winners have been announced (congrats!), we would like to share more about the prizes that they all win, and a bit more about HackerNoon’s stance on web3, privacy and the internet! This series is sponsored by our partners Get.Tech and Avast.

Dottech Domains have been old friends of HackerNoon. They’ve not just sponsored the Noonies events (hosted on noonies.tech), but are also giving away free domains for all winners.

What even is a domain?

You know that computers only read 0s and 1s. Right? **
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But humans read letters and words too!**
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Thus, while you might type in twitter.com or hackernoon.com, your browser converts that text into what is called an IP address. The IP address is the real location where the website is hosted and Domain Registries help make the task of seamless conversion of something like a hackernoon.com typed by you to an IP address like 104.21.54.123.

In hackernoon.com, the hackernoon part is called a domain name and the .com is called the TLD (Top-Level Domain). Just as there are several domain names, there are several TLDs. For example, in noonies.tech, noonies is the domain name and .tech is the TLD.

As a Noonies winner, depending on whether you came in 1st, 2nd, or 3rd, you’ll get a coupon code to redeem any non-premium .tech domain name for FREE.

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